>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 12 21:01:01 2002
>On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> >I will release a newer version once I either have some spare time, or once
>> >I find a serious problem in the current version.
>> You name it! You are a person who did make useless changes on the build system
>> for unknown reasons and your only motivation was to have a private copy of
>> cdrecord running for your A03. This way we never will get good and powerfull
>> free software.
>He released his source code to the public. It doesn't have any license
>keys, it doesn't have any timebombs (June 17).
Again: he did not contribute a single line of own code and the key expires
on Jan 12th 2003 - just check before posting!
>You stated one reason to keep cdrecord-prodvd secret is to prevent
>companies to steal the code and put in some closed source application. But
>dvdtools is now there, open source, and anyone can see the "magic code to
>write DVDs".
It does only implement about 1/4th od DVD related code compared to what's in
cdrecord-ProDVD......
For parts of it, there is no similar code in any other known software.
You see, it protects.....
>Is there really any reason to keep cdrecord-prodvd closed source anymore?
>The genie is out of the bottle so to speak.
See above...
>> Cdrtools come with a standard build system!
>But it doesn't write DVDs...
Cdrecord-ProDVD does write DVDs with more different drives than the so called
"free" one and runs on more different OS because it does not use a broken
autoconfiguration.
Jörg
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